ARM Senior CPU Performance Engineer 

United Kingdom, England, Cambridge 

210023567

By joining the team, you will interact closely with world-wide CPU RTL designers and implementation teams to investigate and evaluate new micro-architectural ideas and design trade-offs that will make the micro-architecture for the next products successful for the target sectors. You will evaluate these ideas and analyse CPU performance and power developing and using C++ based models of the micro-architecture. You will also coach and mentor more junior engineers to help them grow and become deep experts on the field.

The key objectives of this role include:

• Help driving the technical direction of the team, which develops, tests and maintains software models of Arm's advance CPUs.
• Engage with hardware design engineers to prune the design space of next generation products, understanding power and performance opportunities on current processors and investigate potential micro-architectural improvements.
• Support the mentorship and coaching of other specialists; sharing your technical expertise and experience.
• With your help, we will keep improving the effectiveness of Arm modelling methodologies.
• Our team collaborates with performance, design and implementation engineers across the world. You would be involved on the communication and alignment of activities related to integration, methodologies, strategies, etc.

• Good interpersonal skills and capacity to work efficiently with local and remote teams.
• Detailed understanding of CPU micro-architecture.
• Experience of performance modelling.
• Experience of exploring and evaluating ideas and performance related to processor micro-architecture.
• Proven experience in C++.

• Team leadership, including planning and managing tasks, as well as delivery to specification and schedule.
• Strong software development experience, including design specification, coding, testing, and debugging.
• Experience with RTL and SystemC simulators.
• Experience with power models.
• Familiarity with Arm architectures and instruction sets.
• Knowledge of System Architecture and System Software including OS kernel internals.
• Experience of Unix development environment.
• University degree, ideally in electronic engineering or computer science, although other graduates would be considered if they have meaningful experience.

You will get to utilise your engineering skills to build support for technologies and influence millions of devices for years to come. You’ll share ideas with and learn new skills from some of the best engineers in the world!